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Salman’s sentence stayed

Jaipur, March 10
Bollywood actor Salman Khan today got a reprieve with a sessions court in Jodhpur staying the one-year imprisonment awarded to him by a Chief Judicial Magistrate in a 1998 ‘chinkara’ poaching case.

District and Sessions Judge Yashpal Choudhary admitted an appeal filed on the actor’s behalf against Chief Judicial Magistrate B. K. Jain’s verdict on February 17 and ordered suspension of the one-year sentence and fine of Rs 5,000 imposed on Salman till its ruling. — PTI